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TITLE

Critiquing 'race' and racism in development discourse and practice

AUTHOR(S)

Kothari, Uma

PUB. DATE

January 2006

SOURCE

Progress in Development Studies;Jan2006, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article criticizes race and racism in development discourse and practice. It offers critical and challenging perspectives by addressing some of the discursive, material and institutional elements of race and racism from micro- to macro-levels, emphasizing that race matters and needs to be taken seriously in all aspects of development discourse and practice. It stresses that the focus of the article is on a racialized eurocentrism and it is not the intention to suggest a singular, homogenized discourse of development nor deny the existence of dissenting practitioners in the west and elsewhere.

ACCESSION #

19031393

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